I think I understand what you mean, you just need to declare different click events for each of the buttons, so in your control you would have something like:

<asp:Button id="UpButton"
           Text="Up"
           OnClick="UpBtn_Click" 
           runat="server"/>

In the codebehind do something like this

protected void UpBtn_Click(Object sender,
                           EventArgs e)
    {
     //Do whatever you want to do with saving here.
    }

If this is not working then you might need to manually hook up the events, this is a simple little page that explains this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.button.click.aspx

If this isn't what you mean then please let me know.

Cheers,

Steve

In your click events I suppose you could save the properties manually using the Document API

Document d = new Document(Convert.ToInt32(HttpContext.Current.Request.QueryString["id"]));
d.getProperty("yourAlias").Value = "yourvalue";

Thank you Steven and Tom, kind of what I'm looking for but not quite...

I had already implemented the button_OnClick methods as suggested, they're all working fine, updating the view etc

The problem I'm having is that say for example I edit and existing item and click the save button to right of the row:

This is the OnClick method...

protected void EditItem(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
var button = (Button)sender;
var itemID = int.Parse(button.CommandArgument);
var menuItems = GetMenuItemsFromXml(XmlValue.Value);

var parentControl = button.Parent;
menuItems.Where(x => x.ID == itemID).FirstOrDefault().Title = ((TextBox)parentControl.FindControl("ItemTitle")).Text;
menuItems.Where(x => x.ID == itemID).FirstOrDefault().Description = ((TextBox)parentControl.FindControl("ItemDescription")).Text;
menuItems.Where(x => x.ID == itemID).FirstOrDefault().Price = ((TextBox)parentControl.FindControl("ItemPrice")).Text;

XmlValue.Value = GetXmlStringFromMenuItems(menuItems);

BindRepeater(menuItems.OrderBy(x => x.ID).ToList());
}

At the moment the view gets updated as expected however the Umbraco database value doesn't get updated and if I refresh the page, any changes since pressing the save button at the TOP of page are lost.

Am I just missing an assignment of the Umbraco value in my OnClick method?

Thank you again :)

Hi Tim,

So are you saying the data saves fine if you push Save, but you want it to save instead when you click the buttons in your usercontrol?  This is how datatypes are designed to work, but I was thinking you might be able to try the above snippet to save the value manually on your button clicks.

-Tom

I think Tom's suggestion sounds sensible

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